How to properly get rid of the SATA drives in "Safely Remove Hw"(systray Icon)

Question

If you have the nvidia ide and or raid enabled (using the nv/sw ide driver) you have the
drives listed under add/remove hw icon in systray .
To have it gone from now and forever use this dword in registry .
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata]
"DisableRemovable"=dword:00000001
 Open notepad and copy/paste in this , then save it as a reg file , e.g : dis_removable.reg
Double click it to merge into registry.
Do do it manually in registry :
Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata
Create a dword value named "DisableRemovable" without the quotes and set the value to 1
If you dont have the nvata key (e.g nforce 3 drivers) do the same in :
Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvatabus
Create a dword value named "DisableRemovable" without the quotes and set the value to 1
Before :
Samsungs are in Raid-0 (nvraid/nvata).
The other two is single disks (nvata).
After:
All gone , just the USB left as it should be
If you dont have any fw(1394) or usb removables , the entire "Safely Remove HW" is also gone from systray
Reg files zip:
nvata-removable.zip

Answer 1

Quote from: gildan2020 on 19-August-06, 15:05:30
I have an external SATA hard disk. edit: using firewire as the connection port
If I use this registry, will I still be able to safely remove my external hard disk?
All sata disks are connected to the same controller ports on the nvidia motherboard ,
the controller doesn't know if it's an internal disk or one externally connected through a e-sata bracket .
So as said earlier (in post #4) : dont use the reg key if you plan add/remove sata disks in general (internal disks or external disks) .
But in your case if the sata hd box is firewire connected it's an external firewire disk from the OS point of view,
so the reg key doesnt affect this drives ability to stop via "safely remove hw" and it will still be there .
It would only affect you if you had sata all the way .